Overview
This is an exciting and new opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist (CAT or CBT trained and accredited) to join the Pennine West Home Treatment with opportunities to also undertake some work in other parts of our urgent care pathway such as the Initial Response Service and Street Triage Teams. The Home Treatment Team offers support to service users and their families/carers who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in-patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide quality care in a community setting. The Home Treatment Team aims to deliver excellent service in line with Trust values, developing close partnerships with fellow teams and external providers to support service user recovery.
Responsibilities
The psychology role within the Home Treatment Team is well established and highly valued. You would be joining a busy, thriving and supportive service with strong relationships between psychology and management teams as well as the wider multidisciplinary team. As the band 8a psychologist, you would be a member of the senior leadership team with an empowered voice to shape service change and transformation.
You will provide direct and brief psychological formulation and interventions and engage in joint work with the MDT. You will work closely with the team manager, occupational therapist, team medics and clinical leads who form a strong and supportive group of professionals.
The role offers opportunities for innovation and creativity in terms of interventions. We aim to increase access to brief group psychological interventions and the teams value a psychological perspective in joint care planning and risk management when needed. The successful applicant will be dynamic, forward thinking and passionate about working with service users with acute mental health concerns, contributing to a recovery‑focused community approach to care and treatment.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across the area. Specialist provisions include inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services. The Trust also provides physical health and well‑being services in the community in partnership with organisations across Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton. Flexible working options are encouraged to promote work/life balance. Applicants are invited to discuss flexible patterns at interview.
Details
* Date posted: 09 September 2025
* Pay scheme: Agenda for change
* Band: Band 8a
* Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 per year
* Contract: Permanent
* Working pattern: Full-time
* Reference number: 351-PEN1003-LW
* Job location: Home Treatment Team Pennine, Daisyfield Mill, Blackburn, BB1 3BL
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan development psychology as accredited by the BPS.
Knowledge
* An advanced knowledge level relevant to this post, equivalent to a post-graduate diploma.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, design and complex multivariate data analysis as practiced in clinical psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience with a wide range of patient groups across the life course, addressing problems of varying clinical severity and maintaining professionalism under distressing circumstances.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patient care within a multidisciplinary care plan.
Skills
* Skills in complex psychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained concentration.
* Strong written and oral communication skills to convey complex information to clients, families, carers and colleagues.
* Skills in providing consultation to professional and non‑professional groups.
Professional registration and safeguarding
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information refer to the NHS Careers guidance.
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